On an impeccable batting stripe at McLean Park, centuries from Kane
Williamson and Ross Taylor
driven New Zealand to 369, a total that verified well out of Pakistan's grasp despite the stand laid
by their openers. The requesting rate kept rising on Pakistan, and their middle and lower order fell away to give New Zealand a 115-run win with close to7th overs left to play.

Shahid Afridi
commends Ross Taylor after the concluding&#39;s century.Shahid Afridi commends Ross Taylor subsequently the latter's
century.Ahmed Shehzad and Mohammad Hafeez put on 111 for the 1st wicket, and
while their counting rate was beneath the compulsory rate, they set Pakistan up for an uncompromising
exertion in the last 20 overs. At
the 30-over mark, they were two
miserable and needed 203 with Mohammad
Hafeez still at the wrinkle on 80.

Pakistan took the
batting Powerplay at that point, and Mohammad
Hafeez fluctuated the first ball from Grant
Elliott over the square leg boundary. Looking for a replication the next
ball, nevertheless, he holed out off a slower ball. In came Shahid Afridi, encouraged up the order,
but he chop for 11 and Umar Akmal
trailed in the next over. There could only be one result thereafter.

Batting first after winning the toss, Brendon McCullum
provided the innings thrust at the start, and Martin Guptill
and Kane
Williamson kept that energy going with a 128-run 2nd-wicket
opinion before Ross Taylor
added the final curlicue. New Zealand scored 116 in their last 10 overs, during which time Ross Taylor cracked 73 in
36 balls.

After swinging in otiose at a pair of slower full-tosses
outside off from Bilawal Bhatti in the finishing over, Ross
Taylor was on 92 with two balls outstanding. He sent the last but
one ball of the innings mounting into the crowd beyond deep extra cover, and complete
with a thick outdoor edge to the third man boundary. Ross Taylor's unbeaten 102 was New Zealand's
100th ODI century.

Although Ross Taylor's innings comprised
plenty of his characteristic clubs over the leg side, Kane Williamson's was full of sprightly footwork and pretty knocks.
For all that, it was no less cruel in its pace, and his century came up in 80
balls. Martin
Guptill looked on sequence for a hundred as well, and was distressed
after getting himself out, introduction a full-toss from the part-time leg
spinner Ahmed
Shehzad straight into long-off's hands.

That unexpected wicket apart, the bowlers who complete up Pakistan's fifth-bowler
quota - a problem they are likely to contend with right through the World Cup
if Mohammad Hafeez doesn't clear the
tests on his bowling action - conceded 93 runs in 12 overs. That they bowled
that countless overs was down to the detail that two of their front pace, Bilawal
Bhatti and Ehsan Adil, gave away
more than eight and over. By Junaid Khan out of the World Cup 2015, neither Bilawal
Bhatti nor Ehsan Adil made any
sort of case for their enclosure as his additional.

Taking one of the two new balls, Bilawal Bhatti
went for 21 in his first two overs, bowling either too short or too full and
surrendering three fours or a six to Brendom
McCullum. At the other end, Mohammad
Irfan was bowling a close-fitting line and producing sufficiently of
bounce to keep the openers comparatively quiet. Bilawal
Bhatti's extravagance forced Pakistan
to carry on Shahid Afridi
as initial as the 6th over, and he made the breakthrough in his 2nd
over, compelling Brendom McCullum
to chop on while playing one cut shot too many. Shahid
Afridi would have dismissed Brendom
McCullum in his first over had Sarfraz
Ahmed not dropped up a stumping.

Later, in the 38th over of New
Zealand's innings, Sarfraz
Ahmed missed another stumping off Shahid
Afridi, when Ross Taylor
was on 25.

In amongst, Kane
Williamson and Guptill
had put on a century stand at contentedly over a run-a-ball, without demanding
to play any outlandish shots. Pakistan's
bowlers – Mohammad Irfan
and Afridi apart -
were giving them sufficiently of freebies, and the ball was coming on so well
that Martin Guptill
could merely take a step advancing and play pick-up shots over the midwicket
region and Kane Williamson
could skip down the path and chip the seamers over wide mid-off.

At the 30-over mark, New
Zealand were 181-2 wickets. Replication this, by the old logic of
50-over cricket, would give those 360, and this is indeed what they accomplished.

Williamson
strolled former his hundred and fell in the fourth over of the batting
Powerplay, trying to scoop Irfan
over short fine leg but not quite management the satisfactory elevation. If Pakistan thought they could
apply the footbrakes at that point, they were wrong. Grant Elliott and Taylor zapped Bilawal
Bhatti for sixes in the 43rd over, Ross
Taylor's clearing the stadium roof. Bhatti went for 21 in his next over,
the principal of the innings, with Taylor
smacking him for three fours and a six, two of those shots imminent off
full-tosses.

Elliott
holed out to Adil
soon afterward, but Taylor
carried on swinging, and spoiled Irfan's
figures with three consecutive fours at the start of his final over. Till that argument,
he had specified away 37 runs in 9th overs.